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06 April 2017

When 15-year-old Sylvia Rivera was arrested and sent to New York’s Rikers
Island prison in 1966, she was in the gay-reserved section where she met a
good-looking black queen. They threw shade at each other, and then became firm
friends.

Bambi was a natural beauty, unable to be taken as a man, even if she tried.
She had been given the name Bambi because of her large eyes. She was almost
never seen without a bottle and a bag. Once, in male garb, she was attacked on
the subway “for being a dyke”.

After the Weinstein Hall occupation in August 1970, Bambi, along with Sylvia
Rivera, Marsha
Johnson, Bebe
Scarpi, Bubbles
Rose Lee, was a founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
(STAR). She would often be with Sylvia when they zapped gay or student
organizations.

She was part of the commune at the mafia-owned 213 East Second Street. Her method
of pan-handling was rather dramatic: she would stand in the street to stop
traffic, and then bang on car windows to demand change.

Her age is not specified in any of the accounts, nor what happened to her
after 1971.

Was Bambi at the Stonewall riots? Duberman p192 has a very brief mention that she was, but as part of Sylvia's perception of what was happening at Stonewall, That is in the most dubious part of his book, as others maintain that Sylvia was not in fact there. Therefore, we don't know if Bambi was there. Maybe.

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About Zagria

I have a social science degree. I spent several years in the 70s doing Gay Lib counselling, and moved on to organizing trans groups. I was rejected by the Clarke Institute (now CAMH) in the mid 1980s, probably because I do not match either of their stereotypes, but was accepted by Russel Reid on our first meeting in late 1987, and had surgery from James Dalrymple some months later. I have mainly worked as an IT consultant. I have been with the same husband for 45 years.